"Then marked they that fair-carven Horse, and stood
Marvelling round, for a mighty work was there. 
A hapless-seeming man thereby they spied,
Sinon; and this one, that one questioned him
Touching the Danaans, as in a great ring
They compassed him, and with unangry words
First questioned, then with terrible threatenings."

 

From the English translation of "The Fall of Troy",

by Quintus Smyrnaeus, Greco-Roman epic poet of the

4rth century AD.  

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